The Archive · 1923

Terrible Fate of Hospital

PATIENTS

Peking, Sept. 4.

A wireless message to the radio station at Shuanchiao from the wireless station' at Haranomachi reports:—All_ the patients, numbering some 800, in the Imperial University Hospital, Tokio, have' been burnt to death. Among the buildings that have narrowly escaped the conflagration are the Department of Justice, the Naval Department, the Supreme Court, the House of Representatives, the Tokio Prefectural Offica and the Imperial Hotel. The Bank Japan, the Mitsui Bank, the Yasuda Bank, the Third Bank and all other leading banks in Tokio have een reduced to ashes.—Eastern News Agency. Hongkong, Sept. 5.

The Portuguese community are organizing relief and supplies among their nationals to send to Japan for the earthquake sufferers:—Reuter.

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